Ethical Diversions

[Dave Monroe]

"Extermination camps only make their sudden appearance
to immediately fade into points of reference for
virtual camps such as those of the guilt industry
('turned into tourist attractions, foreigners with
cameras will come piling through in droves, tickled
and shivering with guilt') or the one established by
Blicero-worshipping 'homosexual prison-camp inmates'
homesick for Dora ...." (p. 164)

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--- jbor at bigpond.com wrote:

> Also p. 282, the burning human hair of the doll in
> that haunting opening to the Third Section of the
> novel; and a future tense reference to
> "[e]xtermination camps" become "tourist
> attractions" (p. 453), which recalls those
> "gullible visitors" who "Micro" Graham picks out
> from  among tour groups in the Mittelwerke to take
> through to the Dora labour camp (p. 296).

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